LOS ANGELES, CA.- A February 1920 Gandhi letter emphasizing peaceful tactics against the British sold today for $24,686, which includes the buyers premium. Nate D. Sanders auctioned off the letter.

The two-page letter was addressed to Edmund Candler, the Director of Publicity for the Punjab after a violent melee by the British in the city in April 1919. Gandhi writes in part,  You may depend upon my making a ceaseless effort to promote peace with honour and to avoid violence under all circumstances. But my doctrine of non-violence is making slow headway because of the rude conduct of Englishmen generally towards Indian passengers on the trains and the Mahomedan distrust.

Gandhi's Satyagraha movement encouraged indigenous Indians to resist the British occupation by using peaceful non-violent means and complimented the emerging nationalist Swaraj movement for Indian self-rule.

Just months after Gandhis letter, the Indian National Congress voted to accept Swaraj in September 1920.